New Yorkers support expanded abortion rights

Cuomo bill allows late-term procedure if health at risk

Published: 06/06/2013 at 11:20 PM

(New York Post) More than two-thirds of voters support Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to expand a woman’s right to an abortion – even allowing late-term abortions when the woman’s health is at risk, according to a new poll out today.

A Quinnipiac University poll out this morning also shows there is almost no gender gap in the support, with 67 of women and 66 of men polled supporting it.

Cuomo has put forward an abortion bill he says would bring state law more in line with federal law to protect existing abortion rights should Roe v. Wade be overturned. But the bill appears to be going nowhere since the GOP co-leader of the Senate, Dean Skelos, has said he will block a floor vote.